| Creating animated mask effect - Flash Tutorial |
| BELOW IS THE EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE ARE GOING TO CREATE. |
Open flash application Draw a thin rectangle on the gradient layer. Height of the rectangle should be little wider than the width of the image. Fill style linear gradient. Copy the settings as shown in the image below. |
![]() |
| With the help of transforn tool turn this rectangle in such a way, that it starts from the top parallel to the image. Look at the image below. |
![]() |
Click frame 100 on gradient layer press F6 to insert keyframe. Move the gradient from top of the image ( mobile phone in our case ) to the bottom of the image. Create motion tween between frame 1 and 100. Above the gradient layer add one more layer and name it mask. On the mask layer with the help of pencil tool or brush fill up the area where you want to create shining/mask effect. Look at the image below.Right click on this layer and choose mask from the options. |
![]() |
| Finally, press F5 on frame 100 on both the image layer and the mask layer. |
Test your movie. |
| Hope you have enjoyed this flash tutorial on animated mask. |
About Me :
I am a Web designer from Mumbai India. The recent changes
in web design standards has brought in lots of misunderstandings
and misconceptions. The idea behind the web 2.0 standardisation ....read the complete article
Following are the tools / packages and technologies I use for creating
my websites.
Contact Me :
Please contact me for web-design work
Please fill up the form :